Rescission bills proposed by the President of the United States are considered under an expedited process that cannot be filibustered in the Senate, allowing it to pass with 51 votes instead of 60.
[4] The last presidential rescission proposal during this period was made for fiscal year 2000 during the Clinton administration.
[3] No presidential rescission proposals were requested during the presidencies of George W. Bush or of Barack Obama,[1][4] although George W. Bush proposed "cancellations" of funding in the 2007 federal budget through a message that did not use the formal presidential rescission procedure.
[3] In April 2018, President Donald Trump announced his intention to develop a rescission proposal in response to the large funding increases contained in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018, which had passed the previous month.
[6][7] The proposal was scaled back, however, after pushback by Congressional leadership to include $15 billion in rescissions mainly targeting funds that were already unspent.